Uncover our 2024 vacation marketing campaign and discover out how one can be an vital a part of creating a greater #FoodAllergyFuture. Save the date for our 2025 Nationwide Convention and find out about our inaugural fundraising gala, Embrace Each Chew. Plus, discover suggestions and sources for celebrating this vacation season confidently and be a part of us in taking a second to thank our funders this 12 months, and our GivingTuesday supporters.
You’re Canada’s #FoodAllergyFuture
Over time, our members have been instrumental in serving to us advocate for transformative change within the meals allergy neighborhood!
As we head into the brand new 12 months, we’re counting in your help to maintain our vital work going. Donate now to assist us proceed making a distinction in 2025 and past!
Be taught extra about our key initiatives and how one can help a brighter #FoodAllergyFuture.
We’d like your assist to take away obstacles to life-saving remedy, empowering extra Canadians to behave shortly and confidently throughout anaphylaxis.
We’d like your assist to make sure that each Canadian has a seat on the desk and might dine out with confidence.
We’d like your assist to interrupt down the obstacles stopping Canadians from accessing life-changing therapies like OIT.
Be part of Canada’s #FoodAllergyFuture and donate now. Donate $20 or extra and get your year-end tax receipt instantly!
Save the date: 2025 Meals Allergy Canada Nationwide Convention: Unlocking the meals allergy future
Mark your calendars! Our Nationwide Convention is on Saturday, Might 10th, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. This 12 months’s theme is “Unlocking the meals allergy future”, the place you’ll hear from specialists on the newest in meals allergy and the place the long run is headed. Plus, you’ll get an opportunity to attach with others and go to exhibitors who help this neighborhood.
Concurrent classes
- Teenagers: Youth 12+ can participate within the teen classes the place they’ll get an opportunity to learn to handle meals allergy confidently from varied specialists, whereas making new associates from across the nation.
- Dietitians and allied well being professionals: Healthcare professionals can take part in classes on prevention, non-IgE-mediated types of meals allergy, like FPIES and EoE, and extra.
Registration will open quickly! Keep tuned for extra particulars – we are able to’t wait to see you there!
Embrace Each Chew fundraising gala
On November 20th, 2024, we hosted our inaugural Embrace Each Chew fundraising gala in Toronto, Ontario. Visitors united in compassion, nourished hope, and ignited change for the meals allergy neighborhood.
A heartfelt thanks to the unimaginable supporters of our gala. Their beneficiant contributions will assist fund important sources, advance schooling initiatives, and strengthen our advocacy efforts geared toward fostering a safer, extra inclusive world.
Particular appreciation goes out to inspiring #FoodAllergyChampions, Roxana Tavana and Charissa deKoninck, for co-chairing this gala and driving consciousness with ardour and dedication.
Take a look at some photographs of the night under. Be part of the night’s supporters and develop into a #FoodAllergyChampion by donating to Meals Allergy Canada.
Photograph credit score: George Pimentel (social deal with: @georgepimentel1)
Have fun with confidence
For many people, the vacation season is correct across the nook. As you put together for meals, events, and get-togethers, check out our sources under that will help you have a good time with confidence.
In our meals allergy and holidays part at foodallergycanada.ca/holidays, you’ll uncover quite a lot of sensible suggestions and sources designed that will help you navigate this 12 months’s festivities with confidence, together with:
Plus, on this season of giving, discover:
Store protected, store good – suggestions from the Canadian Meals Inspection Company
Make knowledgeable procuring selections over the vacations by understanding the right way to verify for allergens and spot and report meals fraud. Take a look at the CFIA’s “Store protected, store good” content material to study extra. Plus learn one mother or father’s story on how the CFIA took motion after they have been contacted about undeclared allergens.
Watch: CFIA takes motion on undeclared allergens – Sarah’s story
Learn the way the CFIA took motion when Sarah, a mother or father of a kid with meals allergy, contacted them about undeclared allergens.
With this video, you’ll hear firsthand what the method was like, and the way this expertise influenced her confidence within the CFIA’s reporting course of.
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#FoodAllergyChampions: Thanks to our funders for his or her beneficiant help!
With the beneficiant contributions of our funders, we’re in a position to advocate on key points which can be vital to the meals allergy neighborhood, enhance high quality of life, develop precedence instructional initiatives, and create consciousness actions so the general public takes meals allergy critically.
Be part of us in thanking these people and organizations for serving to to #MakeFoodAllergyCount.
TRANSFORMATIVE SUPPORTER
FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS
Thanks to the 473 people and households who supported Meals Allergy Canada up to now this 12 months.
CORPORATE SUPPORTERS
SUPPORTERS OF OUR FOOD SAFETY AGENDA
We wish to additionally thank our business companions for his or her help of our meals security agenda and their dedication to serving to enhance meals allergen administration practices in Canada. Collectively we’re working to assist help Canadians with meals allergy and guarantee they’ll make knowledgeable and protected meals selections.
GivingTuesday Thanks
This previous Tuesday, December 3rd, was GivingTuesday. Whether or not you donated, unfold the phrase, or took time to study extra, you’re an integral a part of Canada’s #FoodAllergyFuture. Thanks for being a meals allergy champion!
You and different members of our meals allergy neighborhood have been instrumental in serving to us advocate to make huge impacts. Whereas a lot progress has been made, we want your assist to proceed making transformational change for subsequent 12 months and the years to come back.
If you happen to didn’t have an opportunity to donate throughout GivingTuesday, you are able to do so now. You should definitely donate earlier than the top of the 12 months to get your tax receipt.
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